THE UNIVERSAL ALPHABET. 49 



from the Language itself, and meaning Universal 

 Speech, (Al for ALL, and ivato for SPEECH or LAN- 

 GUAGE). It is also called, somewhat more technically, 

 TIKIWA, (pronounced tee-kee-ivah), a word also wrought 

 out from the Language itself, and referring to Unism 

 and Duism as the Scientific Bases of Speech. The 

 preliminary steps for the exhibition of this new Lan- 

 guage occur in this Synopsis, in connection with 

 Phonetics. The development of the Language itself 

 will be carried forward in subsequent and special 

 Treatises, Grammars, Vocabularies, etc. 



79. It was observed above (69), that the Scientol- 

 ogy of Language goes even back of the Alphabet for 

 its absolute origins. To gain the point of view of 

 the proper starting-point of this New Science, we 

 must therefore begin with a more radical and thor- 

 ough analysis of the Sounds of some particular Lan- 

 guage, the English, for instance, as is done in the 

 Phonetic Reform initiated by Mr. Pitman ; we must 

 then extend this Analysis to the inclusion of the 

 Phonetic Elements and of the Alphabetic Signs or 

 Letters for the representation of all Languages, thus 

 laying the foundation of a Universal Alphabet, along 

 with Rapp, Ellis, Lepsius, the English Church Mis- 

 sionary Society, Max Miiller and others ; we must 

 then go back to the proper Alphabetic Elements, 

 analyzing and classifying them, as to their localities 

 and the modes of their production in the mouth, and 

 their proper pictorial and symbolic representation, 

 thus founding a new Science of " Alphaboti; ---," with 

 Alexander Melville Bell (in " Bell's Visible Speech ") ; 

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